Build log
Shipped
Built in public — everything that ships lands here, dated.
This log is append-only. For what’s coming next, see what’s coming.
July 2026
- 31 JulFeatureMarkets research goes fully public
Every call, report, journal entry, and the record — full reasoning, no membership gate. Pro keeps early access and depth.
- 31 JulFeatureEverything goes free
Every remaining content gate comes off — premium articles, PDFs, live streams, watchlists. Pro becomes backing the work while the audience grows.
- 31 JulFeatureExplained auto-linking live in articles
Article bodies now link the first mention of known terms into the library — the wire-up the log promised.
- 31 JulFeatureOff-box uptime monitor
GitHub probes production health every 10 minutes from outside the box — a total outage now opens an issue instead of silence.
- 31 JulToolCost of the Job
A monthly bill in pounds for the work you actually do, priced from live provider list rates — joined the shelf when the two /tools surfaces merged.
- 30 JulToolToken Cost Calculator
What an AI feature costs at scale, from token counts and provider prices.
- 30 JulToolGPU Cost per Hour
Depreciation plus power, resolved to the cost of one utilized GPU-hour.
- 30 JulToolBuild vs API
The break-even between renting inference per token and owning the fleet.
- 30 JulToolLocal AI Hardware Sizer
Model size, quantization, and context resolved to the VRAM you actually need.
- 30 JulToolFine-tune vs Prompt
How fast a one-off tuning run pays back the prompt tokens it deletes.
- 30 JulDatasetProvider Rug-Event Log
Dated, sourced log of AI-provider repricings, deprecations, and terms changes.
- 30 JulSurfaceExplained — AI in plain English
Permanent home for the plain-English WTF-is-X series, grouped by category.
- 30 JulSurfaceNewsletter archive
Every sent Sunday flagship issue on the record, grouped by month.
- 30 JulSurfacePress kit
Boilerplate, brand assets, and a working press contact on one page.
- 30 JulSurfaceContact
One published inbox with purpose routing and links to the legal surfaces.
- 30 JulFeatureExchange returns — request to refund
Buyers can request a return on an Exchange order; sellers review, take the item back, and refund.
- 30 JulSurfaceTools shelf
The shelf where every published instrument accumulates, grouped by category.
- 30 JulSurfaceNow — focus & public roadmap
The always-current answer to what we are building, shipping next, and why.
- 30 JulSurfaceShipping log
This page — everything that ships lands here, dated.
- 30 JulSurfaceWhich model should I use? (framework)
The living decision framework; specific picks land after hands-on testing.
- 30 JulSurfaceExplained deep-dives — inference, RAG
The first two full plain-English explainers; every term graduates as episodes cover it.
- 30 JulSurfaceSeries index
Every running franchise in one place, with episode counts.
- 30 JulSurfaceHow we test — eval methodology
The testing rules made public: seat-test standing, disclosure, corrections.
- 30 JulSurfaceAsked — reader Q&A
Real reader questions answered in the open; the first questions land here.
- 30 JulDocAI-economics email course (drafts)
Five lessons drafted, teaching with the calculators — sending awaits approval.
- 30 JulFeatureEmbeddable tools
Every calculator now ships an embed snippet — run it on any page, attribution built in.
- 30 JulToolStack Picker
API, rented GPUs, or your own hardware — a guided walk through the constraints that decide.
- 30 JulToolGPU Picker
Which VRAM card class your local-AI ambition needs — classes, not products.
- 30 JulDatasetToken Price Snapshots
25 observed, dated model API prices open the series — primary-source verified.
- 30 JulSurfaceDatasets index
Every citable series in one place, with the no-invention doctrine.
- 30 JulFeatureExplained auto-linker
Articles can link known terms to the library — tested lib shipped; renderer wire-up pending.
- 30 JulFeatureFull-surface discoverability
Tools, Explained, and Datasets now surface on the homepage shelf, in site search with their own filters, and in the sitemap.